Matthieu Delormeau, one of the main columnists of Touche pas à mon poste, announced on Friday May 12 on Twitter that he was “definitively” leaving the C8 access program presented by Cyril Hanouna, without specifying the reason.
“After seven years on the air, I have decided to leave TPMP and TPMP People for good”, wrote the 49-year-old host on Twitter, thanking “the viewers” whom he thinks have “sometimes annoyed” but hopes to have “ entertained, amused, touched”. “Thanks to C8, to the teams, to the antenna, the production and of course to Cyril. Life is beautiful and we are lucky to have several lives ”he concludes in his message, relayed by Cyril Hanouna on the same social network.
Already in 2020, the former host of NRJ 12 had announced that he was leaving his position as a columnist on C8, citing his desire to "live new adventures". He had reaffirmed in passing his loyalty to Cyril Hanouna and assured that he had "never felt humiliated" in TPMP, even if he was the protagonist of two very controversial sequences. In one of them, Cyril Hanouna had poured noodles in his underpants, and in the other, the presenter of TPMP had tried to make his columnist take responsibility for a pseudo-crime, on a hidden camera.
The program Touche pas à mon poste, presented and produced by Cyril Hanouna (via his company H2O, a subsidiary of Banijay Group), has been a source of controversy in recent years, resulting in multiple warnings and sanctions from Arcom (ex- CSA) against C8. At the beginning of February, the channel notably received a record fine of 3.5 million euros after the insults hurled live by its star presenter at LFI deputy Louis Boyard last November (Satellifacts, February 9).